When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Arts and Entertainment "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Arts and Entertainment
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Arts and Entertainment "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Arts and Entertainment
Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Arts and Entertainment "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Arts and Entertainment
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Arts and Entertainment Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Arts and Entertainment For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Arts and Entertainment
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Arts and Entertainment This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Arts and Entertainment
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Arts and Entertainment "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Arts and Entertainment
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Arts and Entertainment "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Arts and Entertainment The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Arts and Entertainment
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Arts and Entertainment
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Arts and Entertainment Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment
